"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture."

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Source : Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#Grace Quotes #Culture Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.”
“What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.248, Macmillan
“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.”
“The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.”
“If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.”
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and theAmericans know it.”
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

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